Folk culture on St. Helena Island, South Carolina
By: by Guy B. Johnson ; foreword by Don Yoder.
Series: University of North Carolina. Social study series; Social study series (University of North Carolina (1793-1962)); HRAF -- 10.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1930
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: African Americans -- South Carolina -- Saint Helena Island; Sea Islands Creole dialect; African Americans -- Music -- South Carolina -- Saint Helena Island -- History and criticism; Folk music -- South Carolina -- Saint Helena Island -- History and criticism; Folk songs, English -- South Carolina -- Saint Helena Island -- History and criticism; African Americans -- South Carolina -- Saint Helena Island -- Music -- History and criticism; Folklore -- South Carolina -- Saint Helena Island; Saint Helena Island (S.C.) -- Social life and customs
Genres: Music
Notes: "This volume, together with Black yeomanry by T. J. Woofter, jr., and A social history of the Sea Islands by Guion G. Johnson, has grown out of a study of Negro culture on St. Helena Island, S. C., made under the joint auspices of the Institute for Research in Social Science of the University of North Carolina and the Social Science Research Council"-- Pref.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-179) and index.

Microfiche. [New Haven, Conn. : Human Relations Area Files, between 1930 and 1997] 3 microfiches ; 11 x 15 cm. (HRAF. NN23, Sea Islanders. Category 116 ; 10)
Table of contents: title: Gullah: the dialect of the negroes of St. Helena Island; title: Folk songs of St. Helena; title: Folklore from St. Helena Island.